Creating Roles in Asp.net Identity MVC 5

Here we go:

var roleManager = new RoleManager<Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.IdentityRole>(new RoleStore<IdentityRole>(new ApplicationDbContext()));


   if(!roleManager.RoleExists("ROLE NAME"))
   {
      var role = new Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.IdentityRole();
      role.Name = "ROLE NAME";
      roleManager.Create(role);

    }

Here is the complete article describing how to create roles, modify roles, delete roles and manage roles using ASP.NET Identity. This also contains the User interface, controller methods, etc.

http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/show/2898/working-with-roles-in-aspnet-identity-for-mvc

Verify you have following signature of your MyContext class

public class MyContext : IdentityDbContext<MyUser>

Or

public class MyContext : IdentityDbContext

The code is working for me, without any modification!!!

In ASP.NET 5 rc1-final, I did following:

Created ApplicationRoleManager (in similar manner as there is ApplicationUser created by template)

public class ApplicationRoleManager : RoleManager<IdentityRole>
{
    public ApplicationRoleManager(
        IRoleStore<IdentityRole> store,
        IEnumerable<IRoleValidator<IdentityRole>> roleValidators,
        ILookupNormalizer keyNormalizer,
        IdentityErrorDescriber errors,
        ILogger<RoleManager<IdentityRole>> logger,
        IHttpContextAccessor contextAccessor)
        : base(store, roleValidators, keyNormalizer, errors, logger, contextAccessor)
    {
    }
}

To ConfigureServices in Startup.cs, I added it as RoleManager

services.
    .AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, IdentityRole>()
    .AddRoleManager<ApplicationRoleManager>();

For creating new Roles, call from Configure following:

public static class RoleHelper
{
    private static async Task EnsureRoleCreated(RoleManager<IdentityRole> roleManager, string roleName)
    {
        if (!await roleManager.RoleExistsAsync(roleName))
        {
            await roleManager.CreateAsync(new IdentityRole(roleName));
        }
    }
    public static async Task EnsureRolesCreated(this RoleManager<IdentityRole> roleManager)
    {
        // add all roles, that should be in database, here
        await EnsureRoleCreated(roleManager, "Developer");
    }
}

public async void Configure(..., RoleManager<IdentityRole> roleManager, ...)
{
     ...
     await roleManager.EnsureRolesCreated();
     ...
}

Now, the rules can be assigned to user

await _userManager.AddToRoleAsync(await _userManager.FindByIdAsync(User.GetUserId()), "Developer");

Or used in Authorize attribute

[Authorize(Roles = "Developer")]
public class DeveloperController : Controller
{
}